CHARAXES. By Dr. C. Attrivillius. 
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dinal streaks. The basal half of the under surface of both wings deep red-brown or black with numerous sharply 
defined, large, black to grey spots or streaks bordered with white or silver. 1. Jasius Group. 
II. Cellules 1 a and 1 b on the underside of the hindwing at least to the end of vein 1 a usually uni- 
colorous without markings, rarely with dark transverse streaks and very rarely with lighter longitudinal rays, 
in which case, however, the basal half of the under surface has no black, light-bordered spots or the veins are greeia. 
A. Forewing beneath in cellule 1 b near the hinder angle with one large or two smaller, usually very prominent, 
black spots, which form sometimes the pupil, sometimes the bordering of a large eye-spot, sometimes also 
are quite free. 
a) Hindwing at the anal angle between veins 1 b and 2 produced into a broad lobe which is united with a 
small, obtuse tail at vein 2. 2. Zingha Group. 
b) Hindwing at the anal angle not produced into a lobe but usually with a long tail at vein 2. 
* Veins brown or whitish, never green. 
1, Cell of the hindwing beneath with dark transverse streaks. Hindwing never red. 
§ The markings in the middle of the underside of the hindwing terminate at vein 8 and are 
not continued to the costal margin. The costal margin is therefore unicolorous, white or whitish 
green, from the precostal vein to far beyond the middle. 3. Etesipe Group. 
§§ The markings in the middle of the underside of the hindwing are continued to the costal margin. 
f Cell of the forewing beneath with red-brown markings on lighter or darker ground. Hind¬ 
wing above with continuous red-yellow marginal band. 4. Cynthia Group. 
ft Cell of the forewing beneath deep black with white spots. 8. Nohilis Group. 
ttt Cell of the forewing beneath with black markings, often bordered with white, on lighter 
ground. 
* Hindwing above almost wholly white. 7. Hadrianus Group. 
** Hindwing above not mostly white. 
a) Cell of the forewing beneath with a dark spot at the base and two nearly straight 
transverse streaks, or the first transverse streak broken up into two spots of 
unequal size. 
0. Wings above black and red-brown or in the $ blackish, with common white 
median band and the base of the costal margin on the forewing rust-brown. 
5. Lucretius Gh'oup. 
00. Wings above with black ground-colour (often with blue reflection) and white 
or blue markings, in the £ occasionally olive-green. 6. Tiridates Group. 
b) Cell of the forewing beneath in the basal half with three free, rounded, dark dots 
and then with a transverse streak, deeply curved distad in the middle. 
9. Etheocles Group. 
2. Cell of the hindwing beneath with 4 black spots. Hindwing with red ground-colour. 
10. Acraeoides Group. 
** Veins green or greenish, especially at the base and on the under surface. 
§ Hindwing above with silver spots. 11. Jahlusa Group. 
§§ Wings above without silver spots. 12. Candiope Group. 
B. Forewing beneath in cellule lb near the hinder angle without black spot or spots, rarely (in the Varanes 
Grouj>) with slight indication of two dark dots. 
a) Hindwing at least with one long tail, above never black with blue markings. 
* Hindwing at vein 2 not or only shortly tailed. 
§ Veins greenish at the base. Veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing not stalked. 13. Varanes Group. 
§§ Veins not greenish. Veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing distinctly stalked. 14. Lichas Group. 
** Hindwing in both sexes with a long tail at vein 2, in the $ also with one at vein 4. 
15. Zoolina Group. 
b) Hindwing with the margins entire or only weakly dentate; occasionally in the $ with a tail at vein 
4, but the wings in this case above deep black with blue markings. 
* Ground-colour of both wings light green. 16. Eupale Group. 
** Ground-colour of the wings not green. 
§ Wings above yellow-red to brown-yellow with black-brown markings and in both sexes without 
tail. 17. Nichetes Group. 
